Agenda - 09-15-20; 5-a - Zoning Atlas Amendment - Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning District (MPD-CZ) for the Research Triangle Logistics Park (RTLP)

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Approved 9/2/2 N 334 for cars,that's all just asking too much, how do we know that these things aren't going to be built and partly build and 335 then left empty. We have to vote on this and not know what your plans are and I appreciate that you don't have to 336 tell me. I guess I'm just a little irritated that you gave a pretty speech and yet so far you haven't given anything so 337 that's all I have no more. 338 339 Michael Birch: I will say, Ms. Piracci,we given over 50 conditions that are a part of the case and that will be the law 340 that governs this property regardless of who owns it or occupies it. I will say that any developer will have to go 341 through the site planning process and with regard to the EV stations, also the buildings, and their use of alternative 342 energy sources, so much of that is driven by individual tenants. The needs for their building and also the types of 343 things that can be in and around their buildings. Some of these might be manufacturing uses, there are things that 344 we aren't telling you because they are unknown in terms of who the actual end users is going to be. I think that the 345 applicant has attempted to agree to the things as conditions written as a part of the ordinance that it has certainty 346 around and knows about today and can speak with certainty and yes has been reluctant to commit to things that it 347 doesn't know or can't know at this point in time. So it's not a game of hiding the ball, or withholding information but it 348 is a matter of in this rezoning process which is really early in the stage of the development process. We are where 349 we are in terms of what we know. I did just want to make clear that it's not a matter of us knowing and not telling you. 350 It is us operating with the information that we have. 351 352 Continued presentations from the Applicant/Associates for the RTLP proposal 353 354 Adam Beeman: I have a quick question for you Christa, I have read a lot of responses and maybe you can put to 355 rest. Your peak traffic value is cars,trucks, and all, it's not a peak of 200 tractor-trailers an hour or am I wrong. 1 356 have been reading a lot of numbers and everybody has been throwing around that there's going to be 300 tractor- 357 trailers an hour or 200 tractor-trailers an hour and we are talking about all traffic not just tractor-trailers, correct. 358 359 Christa Greene: Yes, that is all traffic. Also, that is during the one peak hour. I think there was a misconception, 360 someone asked Matt how many vehicles are coming out in an hour and when he answered, 200 some people were 361 like 200 an hour over 24 hours that's thousands and thousands of trucks. That is not how it's done.Think about 362 going in and out of your neighborhood,you've got more people going out and coming in during the morning and 363 afternoon. There's a peak time so we have taken one snapshot of the worst time to look at it. We've assumed that 364 worst time is occurring at the worst time and it may or may not be. A lot of warehousing, manufacturing work on 365 shifts that purposely don't line up with the peak hours. 366 367 David Blankfard: You said that the letter grade for Davis Drive and Old 86 was a B,what is the letter grade as it 368 currently stands. 369 370 Christa Greene: It is un-signalized. For an un-signalized intersection if you were to take and average of everything. 371 The eastbound approach today as it stands is a level of service C. 372 373 David Blankfard: So, it's safe to say that the intersection is going to get better. 374 375 Christa Greene: You're going to be able to get out easier. You also have a sight distance thing going on there. 376 When you are looking back to the right, I think a signal, even NCDOT acknowledged that when we met with them. 377 Having a signal is going to make it safer for people exiting Davis because they're going to under a controlled 378 condition. 379 380 David Blankfard: The right turn only at the service road, does that have to happen on Day 1? Under Phase 1 of the 381 buildout? Or can it operate with a left/right turn for a certain amount of time? 382 383 Christa Greene: We did not look at any phasing. 384 385 Melissa Poole: So because it is not phased then the anticipation is when these building are built the traffic light will 386 be there? 387 388 Christa Greene: Yes,that's how the traffic study was done so this would assume the offsite improvement would be 389 done before the site opens.